Improvement in corset-steels



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAX ADLER, on NEW HAVEN, oonnnorroor, ASSIGNOR TO JACOBS, srnoosn & 00.,on NEW YORK, N. or-

IMPROVEMENT IN CORSET STEELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 130,907, datedSeptember 3, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX ADLER, of New Haven, in the county of New Havenand State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inCorset-Steels; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken inconnection with the accompanying drawing and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, andrepresents, in-

Figure 1, a front or outside view of a pair of steels; Fig. 2, a reverseor inside view of the steels; and in Fig. 3, a longitudinal section ofone of the steels.

This invention relates to an improvement in the article of manufactureknown to the trade as corset-steels--that is to say, a pair of steelswhich is applied to the front edges of a corset, and by means of whichthe corset is clasped around the person. The object of this invention isto combine two strips or a double steel for each part, and so that onepart may freely move longitudinally upon the other, but secured togetherfirmly at one end only; and the invention consists in a pair of platesor strips of steel, each pair forming one of the pair of steels thesetwo plates of nearly equal length and width, and firmly secured togetherat one end, the hooks or eyes secured only to the outer plate, leavingthe other without punching or connection to the outer from end to end;but at the upper end a cap is at taohed to one plate inclosing the endof the other plate, which is made slightly narrower at that point, so asto move freely longitudinally the one upon the other, the security atthe lower end preventing their transverse movement.

A is one, and B the other, of a pair of steels. Each of these steels iscomposed of two plates, a and d, (see Fig. 3,) the two secured togetherattached in the same manner. These two plates I are of about equallength, and to the upper end of the outer plate a tip, n, is attached,inclosing the upper end of the outer plate, as seen in Fig. 3 but so asto leave the inner plate 01 free tomove therein, and that this may themore readily do so, I taper the upper end of the rear plates, as seen inFig. 2. By this construction the outer plate only is weakened by theattachment of the studs or eyes, the other being left untouched from endto end; hence, has no weak spots to render it liable to break, and I amthus enabled to use so light steel that a pair of steels constructed inthis 4 manner weigh very little, if any, more than the best class ofsingle steels, and cost little more, yet are far superior, because theyare more elastic and less liable to break.

I claim as my invention As an article of manufacture, the hereindescribed corset-steels, consisting of the two parts, A and B, each partformed from two plates, a and d, to one of which the fastening devicesare attached, and the two plates firmly secured together at one endonly, the other end of one plate resting within a clasp attached t0 theother plate, but left free for longitudinal movement from end to end,substantially as set forth.

MAX ADLER.

Witnesses J. H. SHUMWAY, A. J Tmnrrs.

